Re: [scottish] Spaces....the final frontier

[Mark Robinson]

Hello Colin,

Wednesday, 18 July 2001, you wrote:

CM> This is a little vague.....but am'nt I always?

CM> Linux, and unices in general have lots of lovely tools for playing with 
CM> files. Unfortunately most of them fall apart when faced with a 
CM> filename/path which has spaces in it.  Has anybody out there addressed this 
CM> problem? Any ideas? tools? code?

Just put \ before each space...  Works with bash anyway.

 Mark

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